One blog comment, 62 links to my site??

11 years ago

Originally Posted by TrickyRMA

Hello Everyone,

I posted a comment (long, detailed, relevant, genuine, non-spammy) on someone's blog (a blog to do with a subject relevant to my own website), and my signature led back to my website as a nofollow link.

GWMT has finally updated itself for my website several weeks later, and it is now showing 62 links to my own website from that one single blog comment.

My questions are:

1. Does anyone know the technical reason why a single, innocuous blog comment would generate 62 links to my site?

2. The link is nofollow. If it had been dofollow, would Google have penalised me for suddenly getting 62 links in one day?

Google shows nofollow links in Webmaster Tools.

Some blogs load a sitewide comment widget which depending on the site setup can include a link to the recent comment author websites.

A lot of WordPress themes have this awful comments widget, the links are normally nofollow. If the site is commented on regularly your link won't be there very long.

If all the links are nofollow Google will ignore them SEO wise. Don't worry about them.

62 dofollow links isn't a lot, if the website owner had linked to your site sitewide and it was dofollow Google won't penalize your site for that, that's normal webmaster behavior.

If you are trying to build backlinks avoid sitewide links, avoid low quality spammy links, concentrate on links that are on reasonable quality websites preferably in the same or similar niche to your site.

You will naturally generate low quality, spammy links and even spammy sitewide links it's the nature of the Internet, sites scrape your content, they'll link to you with both nofollow and dofollow links. You will get a fair number of crap links.

In simple terms the problem is when you've also been building low quality crappy links, your entire link profile will be shit! If you've been working on quality links, Google will have no reason to downgrade your site because of the normally generated crappy links you have no control over: consider it a numbers game, some spammy/crappy links are acceptable, only spammy/crappy links isn't.

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

Google shows nofollow links in Webmaster Tools.

Some blogs load a sitewide comment widget which depending on the site setup can include a link to the recent comment author websites.

A lot of WordPress themes have this awful comments widget, the links are normally nofollow. If the site is commented on regularly your link won't be there very long.

If all the links are nofollow Google will ignore them SEO wise. Don't worry about them.

62 dofollow links isn't a lot, if the website owner had linked to your site sitewide and it was dofollow Google won't penalize your site for that, that's normal webmaster behavior.

If you are trying to build backlinks avoid sitewide links, avoid low quality spammy links, concentrate on links that are on reasonable quality websites preferably in the same or similar niche to your site.

You will naturally generate low quality, spammy links and even spammy sitewide links it's the nature of the Internet, sites scrape your content, they'll link to you with both nofollow and dofollow links. You will get a fair number of crap links.

In simple terms the problem is when you've also been building low quality crappy links, your entire link profile will be shit! If you've been working on quality links, Google will have no reason to downgrade your site because of the normally generated crappy links you have no control over: consider it a numbers game, some spammy/crappy links are acceptable, only spammy/crappy links isn't.

David

Yep, this is the reason.

When you are doing blog comment spamming, you will often have comments showing up in a "recent comments" widget on every page of the site when it gets spidered.

The next time the spider visits, your comment will likely be bumped off the widget and the link no longer showing.

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TrickyRMA

11 years ago

Didn't realise that what I did counted as 'spamming'! The comment I left was genuine and tried to add some value!

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SEO-Dave

11 years ago

Originally Posted by TrickyRMA

Didn't realise that what I did counted as 'spamming'! The comment I left was genuine and tried to add some value!

Websites have comments so users can comment, it's only spamming when your only reason for participating on a site is for links.

If you are genuinely participating on someones blog and they don't mind the odd link, you won't be penalized by Google.

If you go over the top which would be link spamming using blog comment bots (automate the spamming) Google at best will ignore it, at worst give the domain a penalty.

Takes a lot to get a penalty from comment spamming because most are nofollow, so Google doesn't have to do anything, the links are ignored: that's why Google adopted nofollow.

The same is true for forums, our sigs here and any links we add are nofollow, Google ignores them. If you used automated tools to spam forums at best Google will ignore it (nofollow) at worst a penalty.

There's no direct SEO value in participating on nofollow blogs/forums. There could be indirect SEO value, I'm participating on an SEO forum, some will read my comments and like what they read and click the links in the sig to my SEO site and some might link to my content from their sites: that's got SEO value.

There are much easier ways to generate links, I could run a free AdSense theme off in a few hours with a footer link that could generate thousands of backlinks (I've generated millions of backlinks that way).

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TrickyRMA

11 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

Websites have comments so users can comment, it's only spamming when your only reason for participating on a site is for links.

If you are genuinely participating on someones blog and they don't mind the odd link, you won't be penalized by Google.

If you go over the top which would be link spamming using blog comment bots (automate the spamming) Google at best will ignore it, at worst give the domain a penalty.

Takes a lot to get a penalty from comment spamming because most are nofollow, so Google doesn't have to do anything, the links are ignored: that's why Google adopted nofollow.

The same is true for forums, our sigs here and any links we add are nofollow, Google ignores them. If you used automated tools to spam forums at best Google will ignore it (nofollow) at worst a penalty.

There's no direct SEO value in participating on nofollow blogs/forums. There could be indirect SEO value, I'm participating on an SEO forum, some will read my comments and like what they read and click the links in the sig to my SEO site and some might link to my content from their sites: that's got SEO value.

There are much easier ways to generate links, I could run a free AdSense theme off in a few hours with a footer link that could generate thousands of backlinks (I've generated millions of backlinks that way).

David

David, many thanks, please could you elaborate a little on your final comment about adsense and generating links that way? I didn't understand.

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SEO-Dave 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TrickyRMA

David, many thanks, please could you elaborate a little on your final comment about adsense and generating links that way? I didn't understand.

One of many ways I've used to build millions of backlinks, give a free theme away with a link in the footer like Blix AdSense WordPress Theme

Ran out a series of free AdSense themes, Blix with AdSense, Connections with AdSense....

Been a while since I made a free AdSense theme (the above ones are way out of date), reasonably confident I was the first developer to add the floating AdSense ad within the theme code (2006) so it went down quite well. Gave my first AdSense themes away for free, got a lot of backlinks, added SEO to the mix and sold them as well. All my old ones are free now, but they are out of date, people do still use them.

Was too successful, like an idiot added a sitewide footer link (which was fine when I did it, but not a few years later) and got hit with unnatural backlinks penalties (too many links).

It's linkbait, offer something others want and you get links in return. Could be free themes, infographics...

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patco 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TrickyRMA

Didn't realise that what I did counted as 'spamming'! The comment I left was genuine and tried to add some value!

It could be a widget that also shows those comments in the sitewide... I hope it will disappear after a few hours/days/weeks... Are they ALL nofollow?
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  Originally Posted by patco
  
  It could be a widget that also shows those comments in the sitewide... I hope it will disappear after a few hours/days/weeks... Are they ALL nofollow?
  
  They are all nofollow, of course.
  
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anudeep 11 years ago

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FranksToys

11 years ago

As David pointed out this is likely because of a recent posts plugin, as more comments are made your comment will fall off of that widget and those links will disappear.

There's no reason though to freak out over those links since one link like that isn't gonna cause you any problems.

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Roopatg

11 years ago

Usually, this happens if the blog has recent comment category, latest comment,latest post etc, which the last comment will be appeared in each and every page of that blog. Recently, I had faced the same problem, where I got 1500 links just because of 1 comment. I contacted and requested webmaster to remove my comment, so that now all backlinks were got removed and not showing in Google webmaster tools.

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BestMate70

11 years ago

You obviously got sitewide links for your comments, so long as its nofollow, you need not worry.

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darkvard

11 years ago

Well as long as those are no-follow you shouldn't be worry as some time that post comes on different widgets which also shows last comments in sidebar and may be linked with many pages but it will be corrected later.

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